Category: UPS News

When customers seek to tap UPS Supply Chain Solutions’ services and UPS’ network relationships to gain sustainability benefits or generate an economic return, they many times also desire transportation reliability that’s comparable with their current mode of choice, says Buenker. There are many “win-win-win solutions” for UPS, its customers and carriers that lead to lower costs, improved service and better-utilization results, he says.

“While many of our customers engage in their own transportation solutions directly with carriers, the benefit of any expansion in a market that is part of our hub network creates logistics clusters that draw those efficiencies for many transportation modes,” says Buenker.

And rail is often a mode in play due to its efficiencies — benefits that could send more UPS-generated freight in rail’s direction if the shipper’s reliability needs are met.

Police were searching for additional victims of a 36-year-old UPS employee charged with sexually assaulting two women last month.

Anthony Leroy Tinzly was charged with 12 felony counts in connection with the two assaults including kidnap, rape, sodomy and robbery, according to a news release from the Los Angeles Police Department.

Tinzly, a 15-year employee of United Parcel Service, was linked to two separate sexual assaults that occurred on June 11 and June 18 in the South Los Angeles area, police said.

The new pricing strategy could give United Parcel Service’s revenue and earnings a boost. Revenue per parcel would improve, while operating costs would come down because of the efficiency gain. And this could be achieved without sacrificing volume. Since FedEx has made a similar move, and the two companies have an effective market duopoly, customers would have no choice but to accept the new pricing structure. All these factors are expected to solidifying UPS’ business growth and improve profitability.

Soon-to-be United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS ) CEO David Abney told Reuters earlier this month that expansion in emerging markets is “our No. 1 priority.” So far the courier giant has focused more on its home market, which has led its international revenue to stagnate in the last few years. But market conditions are changing fast, and the company ultimately expects 95% of consumers to live beyond the U.S.

UPS realizes that it has to step up its international game if it wants to generate sustainable growth in the years to come.

UPS FACED a crisis in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The company’s traditional business model was increasingly out-of-sync with the rapidly changing retail business market. The crisis was so severe that the very future of the company was at stake. Yet not only did UPS survive the crisis–it dramatically shifted its business strategy and, during the following two decades, emerged as one of the rising giants of the shipping industry.

What was the source of the crisis, and how did UPS survive it?

UPS founder and still-serving CEO Jim Casey saw the potential for different type of business market that the company could gobble up: “The vast field of distribution for wholesalers and manufacturers appears to be wide open for us.”